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This chart describes fast food waste across its travel to landfills or other disposal areas.

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Fast Food waste from other parts of the world. This shot is a full trash can in London.

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How To Make the Fast Food Industry more Sustainable

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How To Make the Fast Food Industry more Sustainable

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I feel the main way for fast food companies to help be more sustainable, and to continue with their industry is by using onsite biodigester so that our carbon emissions are reduces. These machines completly eliminate waste, flies or rodents infesting trash cans, the awful smell, and completely remove all carbon emissions in total. Installing these biodigesters at each fast food restaurant will aid fast food companies in the global effort in ending global warming. Although all of this, restaurants are doing things to aid in the effort, and because of this we are making small steps. Fast food chains are adding vegetarian and vegan options to their menus, and contributing to adding paper straws to stop adding to the global waste piles. These small things lead to more efforts to be environmentally effective. Finally, the best ways for individuals and businesses to take part in these efforts and become more environmentally sustainable. First up, businesses. As a fast food business, you should be managing your waste. Assigning waste management roles to staff will contribute to better management of your waste products. Also, having roles and responsibilities to keep track of waste will let companies further their management of the issue. Reusing waste is a great way for everyone to contribute. Getting inn touch with a local NGO or any other organization is a great way to take part in globally reusing and donating waste. In all, sustainability in fast food is very important not only to our society but our environment as a whole.

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Fast food is a big contributor to the stable economy in America. In 2023, the industry is expected to hit 946.6 billion dollars in total revenue, leading it to being one of the biggest economical industries in the country. Fast food is also devastating to its workers, and working at one of these restaurants contributes to only a 23,680 dollar annual revenue. Therefore, workers are stuck in a poverty chain, without enough money to start an actual life. Also, if you compare the amount of revenue the total business makes compared to the annual wage of their workers, you can tell workers are underpaid. This amount of revenue, especially in an area like Falls Church City, makes it extremely difficult to sustain a life. Due to normal costs of housing, groceries, and taxes this pay rate is extremely low. This makes it very difficult to find real occupations in society. Fast food shifts also are long and repetitive, which can contribute to creating a routine without variation. These types of routines can be extremely draining, and can impact mental health standards as well. To finish off, fast food has a massive economical impact in our society as a whole, and contributes to more poverty and industry growth than one might think.

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Fast food has been contributing greatly to polluting our environment as well behind the scenes. Fast food producers create boxes and containers for their products with chemicals that make the packaging impossible to decompose, leaving tens of thousands of these chemicals around forever. This leads to fast food contributing to over 600,000 tons of food waste each year. Also contributing to how studies show that around ten percent of fast food we produce is completely wasted and not used in the slightest, and it produces up to 40% of the food waste we create and put back into the environment. Similarly, fast food contributes to our energy emissions. Fast food production takes up around 20% of the entire United States energy emissions, coming from fryers, lights, and even stoves leading to a substantial dent in our total energy consumption. Finally, fast food is getting its packaged and processed products from places like factory farms. Because of this, fast food adds to the already enormous amount of factory farming and non-sustainable and heavily chemicalized products. As a whole, fast food has a massive contributing factor to our environment as a whole.

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How the Fast Food Industry Impacts Humans

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How the Fast Food Industry Impacts Humans

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Fast food also has a substantial impact on human society as a whole as well. To start, fast food is highly satisfactory to humans. It is made cheap, easy, and highly processed. This kind of processed food contains extreme amounts of grease, salt, and other unhealthy ingredients. This quote from Ken Robinson also captures this idea, when he states that: “We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.” Due to these issues, it can create an addiction to the product and the industry. These addictions can also lead to other health problems, including obesity and higher blood pressure. Not only does it cause health problems, but also gives the consumer an unhealthy diet. Fast food doesn't only affect adults, it also targets kids as well. Almost half the preschoolers that see fast food advertisements on tv, then go to ask their parents to purchase this type of fast food, leading to an increase of unhealthy diets in some of the youngest children across the country. Also, minorities and the poorer side of the country are largely affected as well. These types of people sometimes may not be able to afford more expensive and healthy kinds of food, then afterwards leading them to become one of the prime customers in the industry as a whole. To wrap up, fast food can have a more dangerous impact on humans than we might assume.

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The history of the fast food industry may date back farther than you think. The first fast food chain to open up in America was White Castle. White Castle's first restaurant opened up in Kentucky, dating back to 1921. White Castle was the initial introduction to the idea of marketing cheap and quick food for American citizens. Soon, the ingenious idea of fast food spread across the states due to the industrialism of America. Industrialism first introduced the highway system in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. The highway system included long strenuous roads, running across the entirety of the states for people with longer car ventures. The highway was a way to attract large groups of cars and customers, so adding restaurants nearby gave people in a hurry an option for a quick meal. Next, as more years passed, the fast food industry started to open up into a new audience with its newest addition, vegetarian food in 2002. Burger King was the first fast food to idealize this new audience, adding the vegetarian burger to its menu. This was the first step to adding vegetarian appeal in the fast food industry, soon to be followed by other fast food restaurants and companies. Finally, in the most recent times, a new form of fast food has been newly introduced to the new normalized economical industry. This has been named as DoorDash. DoorDash is a delivery service company for lots of businesses in the fast food industry, first founded on January 12th, 2013. DoorDash revolutionized the fast food industry, as it let people purchase fast food to arrive from the comfort of their homes. In all, the history of fast food was a slow but revolutionary adventure in the restaurant industry.